Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
[W. H. R. ] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.
I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.
Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.
History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick
Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.
In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.
Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother, in a way that her grandmother could understand what she was saying.
Theology is Anthropology. . . [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
